{"id":6493,"date":"2008-06-04T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_accused_of_censoring_debate_on_islam\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T18:19:00","slug":"church_of_england_accused_of_censoring_debate_on_islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"Church of England accused of censoring debate on Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has been accused of censorship for shelving a controversial debate about Islam.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Church&#8217;s &#8220;parliament&#8221; was due to discuss whether clergy should be doing more to convert British Muslims to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The sensitive issue was highlighted last week by a senior bishop who accused Church leaders of failing to reach out to other faiths, and warned that radical Islam is filling a gap in society caused by the decline of traditional Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>But now the Church has put off the debate on recruiting Muslims until next February at the earliest and will discuss the promotion of churches as tourist attractions instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2074486\/Church-of-England-accused-of-censoring-debate-on-Islam.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has been accused of censorship for shelving a controversial debate about Islam. A meeting of the Church&#8217;s &#8220;parliament&#8221; was due to discuss whether clergy should be doing more to convert British Muslims to Christianity. The sensitive<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6493\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,42,74,389,199,161,426,659,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}